Zou Run was a cunning person. He used the excuse of visiting Tuoji Island to cover up Zou Yuan's knowledge. In fact, he was planning another trip down the mountain.
Yes, he told his uncle that he would not travel far away recently, but he did not say that he would not travel close to home.
Laizhou is very close to Dengzhou. Whether by boat or horseback, the round trip only takes two or three days. How is this different from visiting relatives?
So early the next morning, Zou Run felt at ease, swaggeringly leaving behind a lot of complicated people and things, taking Er Ruan and a group of followers, and embarked on the way down the mountain.
Before going to Laizhou, he had to go to Tuoji Island. After leaving the island for so long, it was time to go back and have a look. He was still a little worried about the island's defense and various infrastructure construction.
According to reports, the actions of the Dengzhou Navy have become more and more frequent recently. Tuoji Island, the original garrison point that was abandoned by the Dengzhou Navy a long time ago, has been frequently visited by imperial warships in the surrounding waters. The gangsters disguised as ordinary fishermen reported that those warships were flying the flags of the Ping Navy and the Cheng Navy.
"The trees want to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop...the rain is about to come and the wind is filling the building..."
On Tuoji Island, there is a double-topped mountain.
On the towering watchtower, Zou Run touched the railing with his hand, looked at the boundless sea in the distance where the clouds and seas met, and the waves were rising, and he sighed sincerely. Ping Haijun and Cheng Haijun are really the Sword of Damocles hanging on the top of Dengyun Mountain, and they are the sea barriers that prevent Dengyun Mountain's dragon from soaring into the sea and galloping in all directions.
Zou Run, who was familiar with the aftermath, knew that the sudden and frequent movements of the two armies were most likely because Ma Zhi returned to the Song Dynasty from the Liao Kingdom, and then lobbied Tong Guan and Song Huizong, introducing to them the alliance with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty in order to plot the Sixteenth Anniversary of Yanyun. State’s grand plan. This incident was called the Maritime Alliance in later generations, and the prerequisite for the Maritime Alliance was that a sea route to the Jin Kingdom must be found first while bypassing the Liao Kingdom.
Although finding a sea route is the main task of Ping Haijun and Cheng Haijun, nothing is absolute. If the two armies get a glimpse of the details of Tuoji Island on the way and launch an all-out attack, it will be very difficult for Dengyun who has not yet taken shape. For the Shanshui Army, it was undoubtedly a disaster.
Therefore, if these two armies are not eliminated, Zou Run will not be able to sleep well.
After inspecting the island's entire defense system including the wall, watchtowers, harbors and docks, Zou Run and Er Ruan walked down the top of the mountain and subconsciously stopped at a certain point at the foot of the mountain.
It was originally a simple tomb consisting of a handful of loess and a wooden tablet, but now it has become a fine tomb with blue bricks on the outside and a stone tablet in the middle. If someone who didn't know the inside story looked at it, they would probably think that this was the ancestral tomb of a wealthy family. How would they know that the person buried inside was just a little-known gangster from Dengyun Mountain?
"Brother Zhang, Zou Run is here to see you..."
Offer incense, offer wine, and offer libations.
Whether it was a sincere tribute or an invitation to buy people's hearts, Zou Run still couldn't figure out what he really thought. But after doing this, when the followers and Er Ruan around him looked at his back, their already extremely loyal eyes added a little more admiration.
In their opinion, their village leader is worthy of their life to guard and be loyal to.
During the two days on the island, Zou Run not only reviewed the naval forces, boarded the ship in person to watch Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi each lead a fleet to carry out simulated operations on the water, but also gave instructions to strengthen the island's defense system. Arrow towers and sentry posts were added in several key areas.
At the same time, we also went to the homes of dozens of households who had immigrated to the island to inquire about people's livelihood problems.
The first two are serious business, while the latter is just for show. Which of these households is not closely related to the minions in Dengyun Mountain? Naturally, they cannot be harmed on their own territory. Being oppressed by his own people, Zou Run could not only eat well but also wear warm clothes.
This was originally a trivial matter full of bad taste, but just on the way, he made a major discovery - he found a basket of sea intestines on the stove of a family's kitchen!
As a sailor in his previous life, Zou Run ate a lot of Shandong cuisine from the eight major cuisines. Therefore, he also knew that although seafood like sea intestines is not amazing in appearance, it is a magic weapon for Shandong cuisine to become the protagonist of palace cuisine in later generations! As long as the sea intestines are cleaned, dried and then ground into powder, and then served with other seafood such as dried shrimps, the final product is the original MSG!
If you plant flowers intentionally, they will not bloom, but if you plant willows unintentionally, they will create shade.
Now he found another product that could sell well. Zou Run was so happy that he immediately issued a death order. It is required that the cannery and MSG factory must be established within half a month.
With these two products as supplements, mainly salt and tea, as long as everything goes well, the village will have no worries about its financial resources for at least a year. By then, Zou Run would have a hundred ways to make the two little Kalami, Ping Haijun and Cheng Haijun, take a detour when they see the Dengyunshan ship!
"Cao Sheng."
Following Zou Run's call, a middle-aged man in his early forties stood out from the crowd behind him. This man was the cannery director recommended by Zou Yuan. And now, he has quickly become the director of the MSG factory.
"The villain is here!"
Cao Sheng, who is not tall but has a stocky figure, quickly agreed.
"I have taught you how to make canned meat and MSG, plus the secret method of assembly line production. I will see the finished product in a month at most."
"You dare to issue a military order! If you fail to complete it, I am willing to be punished by military law!"
Within a few days, Cao Sheng, who had changed from slashing people with a knife to administrative management, still had the habit of being in the military. He opened his mouth and accepted the military law.
Zou Run expressed satisfaction with the person recommended by his uncle. Youdao can only see the whole picture from a glimpse. From Cao Sheng, Zou Run saw that the seeds of military discipline he had planted in Dengyun Mountain had quietly blossomed, and Dengyun was developing at a rapid pace. Yunshan is gradually losing its habit of bandits and robbers.
Along the coast, the north wind picked up again, and the sea breeze with a fishy smell came towards him, wrapped in thick water vapor. Ruan Xiaowu was worried that Zou Run would catch cold, so he stepped forward to persuade him to go back to the military camp on the island to rest, but Zou Run waved his hand. But he sent an order to send a ship to take him to Laizhou.
Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi looked at each other, their eyes full of heartache. In the hearts of these two people, they could not find someone like their village leader who was in a high position but did not neglect pleasure at all and devoted himself wholeheartedly. The Green Forest Group has invested heavily in the development of cottages.
The two were hesitant to stop talking, wanting to persuade but not dared to do so, so they could only sigh heavily and go down to make arrangements.
After noon, the gate of the military village at Tuoji Island Harbor opened wide. A Dengyun navy warship with 400 materials and a capacity of 100 people was disguised as an offshore cargo ship and sailed north. Er Ruan and a group of navy leaders arrived at the village. He stood on the wall to see him off and watched his village leader leave for Laizhou.
Laizhou Shipyard is a private shipyard. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, all shipyards in the Jingdong area were basically privately owned. There was only one government-run shipyard in Mizhou, but it only supervised the construction of some small boats for official use. Even the states near the sea The county capital looks like this, which shows the decline of the northern shipbuilding industry.
The reason is the inexplicable coastal defense problem. The Song Dynasty deployed hundreds of thousands of troops on the northern border, built countless walled fortresses, and even thought it created a large swamp area to prevent Liao cavalry from going south.
Defense has been taken to the extreme on land, and no one is allowed to go to sea. The policy of no entry into the sea has been implemented for decades. So many people who depend on it have lost their jobs, and many prosperous industries have declined. It is satisfactory. The ministers turned a deaf ear to this and applauded this "best policy".
How ridiculous is it that the Southern Dynasty, which was good at riding boats, was afraid that the Liao Kingdom in the north, which was good at riding and shooting, would attack from the sea?
Liaophobia has been a lingering cancer disease for the monarchs of the Song Dynasty in all dynasties.
Looking at the faint coastline, Zou Run smiled inexplicably.
